UPDATE: Check out these videos of Slater’s Gwendolyn Taylor here and here. Four Atlanta Public Schools elementary teachers got a needed boost in their classrooms Tuesday when OfficeMax provided $1,000 worth of school supplies as part of their national “A Day Made Better” project. The recipients were Boyd’s Trina White, Fickett’s Merilyn Tickles, Slater’s Gwendolyn Taylor […]
Congratulations go out to Boyd Elementary and Atlanta Charter Middle for each winning a $2,500 from the Kroger Earning Plus Learning Program. The grants are provided by the supermarket chain to help tie student achievement to environmental awareness, hence this year’s theme: “Active! Mind. Body. Community.” According to Boyd Elementary school counselor Mignon Hardeman, the […]
No, the principal and staff at Boyd Elementary weren’t crazy from the summer heat. They figured the only sane way to ensure high attendance for the year-round school’s first day of school July 14 was to literally go door-to-door around the school’s neighborhoods. Only this way could they make sure that new and returning students […]